On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmmm.... I don't know anything about the internal structure of bacula, or much > about databases, but it seems to me that this is a serious weakness. Would it > be > possible for baclula to function more like a journaling filesystems in terms > of > keeping consistency? > > Would it be possible to use the existing algorithms in bacula to insert the > File > records into a temporary db table--and also write File records to the > temporary > table in anticipation that the write to storage will succeed, and then [move/ > copy/insert] those records into the real table only when the write to the > storage media has been acknowledged?
I _think_ that spooling data while not spooling attributes would probably work, however there it's probably still risky. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
